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Policy
Theme 1.
Resource management policies and food security
Adaptation with food security
Where food insecurity is prevalent, adaptation planning and design must prioritize programmes tailored to poor people and communities’ specific vulnerabilities, capacity to cope and opportunities to build resilience.
National or regional-level adaptation programmes in agriculture and other land uses must integrate livelihood objectives and tackle food insecurity at individual, household and community levels.
KEY MESSAGES
Despite an increased body of scientific evidence on how to harness biodiversity within agricultural systems, we still lack the right policy and economic tools to make appropriate changes.
Fluctuations in our food supply due to climate variability are not yet sufficiently incorporated into our food price models and analyses.
We need better understanding of how climate-induced shocks to food prices and supplies are transmitted across sectors and borders.
Payments for environmental services (PES) have worked in forest recovery only when market incentives are combined with regulatory enforcement and participatory approaches.
To be successful in delivering multiple ecosystem services, PES need to be better designed and founded on properly framed meta-analyses.
Explore economically viable options for environmental services’ payments for pollinator protection.
More socio-economic research is needed coupled with institutional innovations that overcome the low adoption rates of proven technologies, especially under low yielding, high risk environments.
Devise integrated schemes that combine new adapted species (plants and animals) with conservation agriculture, sustainable grazing and water harvesting.
Develop adaptable and practical policy schemes (including PES) to support these technological packages under rangelands conditions.
Adopt a climate-smart water policy to better integrate water and supply scenarios within an integrated land-crop- energy strategy at a given hydrological unit.
With scarcity, water use policy must make a clear distinction between water use efficiency at field (or farm) level and water use sustainability (watershed level or groundwater aquifer level).
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